Indiana Weeds — Their Control and Eradication. 



By G. M. Feikk, B. S. A., Assistant Agricultural Extension, 

 Purdue University. 



The subject of weeds is one in which the people of Indiana are taking 

 more and more interest each year. The farmers, who constitute a large 

 percentage of the population of the State, are much concerned about the 

 weed situation now confronting them. There are growing on the farms 



1. Bracted Plantain. 



2. Buckhorn. 



3. Black-seeded Plantain. 



4. Common or Dooryard Plantain. 



af Indiana today, scores of species of weed pests, and in many cases enor- 

 mous numbers of eacli species. This results in smaller crops and smaller 

 [d'ofits. Weeds are robbers in a very distinct and definite sense. To the 

 citizens of our town and cities they are unsightly and offensive, disfiguring 



